Social Cognitive Radio Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview

   • Xu Chen, Jianwei Huang

   Pages 1-5

3. Adaptive Channel Recommendation Mechanism

   • Xu Chen, Jianwei Huang

   Pages 7-33

4. Imitative Spectrum Access Mechanism

   • Xu Chen, Jianwei Huang

   Pages 35-60

5. Evolutionarily Stable Spectrum Access Mechanism

   • Xu Chen, Jianwei Huang

   Pages 61-81

6. Conclusion

   • Xu Chen, Jianwei Huang

   Pages 83-83

This brief presents research results on social cognitive radio networks, a transformational and innovative networking paradigm that promotes the nexus between social interactions and cognitive radio networks. Along with a review of the research literature, the text examines the key motivation and challenges of social cognitive radio network design. Three socially inspired distributed spectrum sharing mechanisms are introduced: adaptive channel recommendation mechanism, imitation-based social spectrum sharing mechanism, and evolutionarily stable spectrum access mechanism. The brief concludes with a discussion of future research directions which ascertains that exploiting social interactions for distributed spectrum sharing will advance the state-of-the-art of cognitive radio network design, spur a new line of thinking for future wireless networks, and enable novel wireless service and applications.

• Cognitive radio networks
• Distributed spectrum sharing
• Game theory
• Social interactions
• Social networks

• University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  Xu Chen

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR

  Jianwei Huang

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